Biography

Phil is a director & writer and helms the award-winning indie film collective Native Voice Films in London UK. He has directed, written and shot over 30 films for TV and cinema. His recent cinematic features as director/writer are The Bengali Detective (Sundance and Berlin premiere - HBO), Love Hotel (Toronto premiere. Netflix / BBC Storyville), Betty They Say I'm Different (IDFA premiere, ARTE / BBC / Amazon), The Cleaner (FR2), The Spider-Man of Sudan (ARTE / The Guardian). He is the recipient of a British Grierson Award, a Rory Peck Award, and the Hinzpeter and Bayeux Calvados award. His most recent cinema work is Khartoum to premiere at Sundance 2025 and Berlinale 2025. He also is developing two narrative fictions based on real events: A Boy's Journey and The Other Side Of Here.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

In 2021, after the first Covid lockdown, Philip accompanied his 10 year old son Romeo as they both walked an epic journey of 3000km from Palermo Sicily to London UK, to be with their housebound grandmother in England.

In 2017, whilst working as a video journalist, Philip was kidnapped in the desert of Darfur before being held for some months in black sites and political prisons in Khartum, Sudan.

A committed Arsenal supporter.